Department of Psychology
Tamara is a second-year graduate student in the Developmental Psychology program working with Dr. Tracy Riggins. In Spring of 2018, she graduated from Washington State University (WSU) with dual Bachelors degrees in Psychology and Kinesiology. As an undergraduate, Tamara worked as a Research Assistant/Intern in Dr. Christorper Connolly's Exercise Physiology & Performance Laboratory and in Dr. Maria Gartstein's Infant Temperament Laboratory. Tamara's interdisciplinary experiences allowed her to be a liaison between the two laboratories, giving her the opportunity to study the links between prenatal health behaviors and infant development. Tamara's current research interests include health and lifestyle factors that impact the early development of episodic memory and the brain. Specifically sleep, stress, and exercise.
Electrophysiological indices of memory for temporal order in early childhood: implications for the development of recollection.
Developmental science Mar, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19143795
A review of the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure among school-aged children.
Pediatrics Mar, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20142293
Consequences of low neonatal iron status due to maternal diabetes mellitus on explicit memory performance in childhood.
Developmental neuropsychology , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 20183732
Declarative memory performance in infants of diabetic mothers.
Advances in child development and behavior , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21207806
Memory ability and hippocampal volume in adolescents with prenatal drug exposure.
Neurotoxicology and teratology Jul, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22652523
Electrophysiological investigation of source memory in early childhood.
Developmental neuropsychology , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23573796
Developmental changes in memory encoding: insights from event-related potentials.
Developmental science Jul, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23786477
Longitudinal investigation of source memory reveals different developmental trajectories for item memory and binding.
Developmental psychology Feb, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 23855256
Amygdala volume linked to individual differences in mental state inference in early childhood and adulthood.
Developmental cognitive neuroscience Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24139023
Elicited Imitation Performance at 20 Months Predicts Memory Abilities in School-Age Children.
Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24436638
Relations among prospective memory, cognitive abilities, and brain structure in adolescents who vary in prenatal drug exposure.
Journal of experimental child psychology Nov, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24630759
Children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome exhibit impaired spatial working memory.
American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24679349
Processing and rejection of novel items in childhood: event-related potential study of similar lures and novel foils.
Developmental psychobiology Mar, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25631694
Developmental differences in memory during early childhood: insights from event-related potentials.
Child development May-Jun, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25677124
Prenatal drug exposure to illicit drugs alters working memory-related brain activity and underlying network properties in adolescence.
Neurotoxicology and teratology Mar-Apr, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25683798
Developmental differences in relations between parent-reported executive function and unitized and non-unitized memory representations during childhood.
Frontiers in psychology , 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26347683
Developmental Differences in Relations Between Episodic Memory and Hippocampal Subregion Volume During Early Childhood.
Child development Nov-Dec, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26459750
Interpretation of prenatal drug exposure functional imaging data.
Neurotoxicology and teratology Nov-Dec, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26518758
Hippocampal functional connectivity and episodic memory in early childhood.
Developmental cognitive neuroscience 06, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26900967
Event-related potential study of intentional and incidental retrieval of item and source memory during early childhood.
Developmental psychobiology 07, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26969036
Development of hippocampal functional connectivity during childhood.
Human brain mapping 01, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 27585371
Age-related differences in subjective recollection: ERP studies of encoding and retrieval.
Developmental science 05, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 28677331
Age- and performance-related differences in encoding during early childhood: insights from event-related potentials.
Memory (Hove, England) 04, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 28830307
Increasing relational memory in childhood with unitization strategies.
Memory & cognition 01, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 28849375
Long-term effects of prenatal drug exposure on the neural correlates of memory at encoding and retrieval.
Neurotoxicology and teratology Jan - Feb, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29107754
White matter structural connectivity and episodic memory in early childhood.
Developmental cognitive neuroscience 12, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29175538
Cohort-Sequential Study of Conflict Inhibition during Middle Childhood.
International journal of behavioral development Nov, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29230076
Protracted hippocampal development is associated with age-related improvements in memory during early childhood.
NeuroImage 07, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29518573
It's All in the Details: Relations Between Young Children's Developing Pattern Separation Abilities and Hippocampal Subfield Volumes.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) Sep, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30192932
Neural correlates of developing theory of mind competence in early childhood.
NeuroImage 01, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30273714
Early parenting predicts hippocampal subregion volume via stress reactivity in childhood.
Developmental psychobiology 01, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30288730
Preserved speed of processing and memory in infants with a history of moderate neonatal encephalopathy treated with therapeutic hypothermia.
Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association Dec, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30323324
When less is more: Thinner fronto-parietal cortices are associated with better forward digit span performance during early childhood.
Neuropsychologia 12, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30393004
Relations between neural structures and children's self-derivation of new knowledge through memory integration.
Developmental cognitive neuroscience 04, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30630776
Handling Multiplicity in Neuroimaging Through Bayesian Lenses with Multilevel Modeling.
Neuroinformatics Jan, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30649677
P300 development from infancy to adolescence.
Psychophysiology Feb, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30793775
The influence of age and performance on hippocampal function and the encoding of contextual information in early childhood.
NeuroImage 07, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30905835
Learning From Others: The Effects of Agency on Event Memory in Young Children.
Child development Aug, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31400001
Empathic responding and hippocampal volume in young children.
Developmental psychology Sep, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31464494